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Retain And Accelerate Army FCS Spin Out, Gates Recommends

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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt Potential sweeping changes in defense priorities would not necessarily change the Army's initial technology spin out of its $160 billion Future Combat Systems (FCS) modernization program. "We will retain and accelerate the initial increment of the program to spin out technology enhancements to all combat brigades," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said April 6. What that actually means will have to be fleshed out in the fiscal year 2010 budget specifics that will go to Congress sometime in…

Senators Push Navy Against Single Destroyer Request In FY ’27

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Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

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Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

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Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]